Axia College Material
Appendix F

Comprehensive Grammar CheckPoint

Enter the correct answer for each item by typing A or B in the second column. Provide an explanation for each choice in the Rationale column. The boxes expand to accommodate the text.

|Item |Correct Answer |Rationale |
| |(A or B) | |
|1. |B |A nurse can either be male or female. |
|2. |A |The second sentence makes a statement girls aren’t good in math. |
|3. |B |The first sentence stereotypes a specific religion. |
|4. |B |The sentence does not make reference to what race he is. |
|5. |A |It tells the age of the child that needs counseling and why. |
|6. |B |The experience is necessary not the age of a person. |
|7. |A |It tells the special need of the child for the trip. |
|8 |A |It is saying that all you will eat is raw fish from a Japanese house. |
|9. |B |Sentence A contains an incomplete sentence. |
|10. |B |Sentence A is not a sentence. |
|11. |A |Sentence B is two sentences put together without any punctuation separating them. |
|12. |A |I thought sentence B was a comma splice. I guessed on this one. |
|13. |A |The words believe, families, and occurrence is spelled correctly. |
|14. |B |Argument and commitment are spelled correctly. |
|15. |B |University and Valley are proper nouns that should be capitalized. |
|16. |A |December and McDonald’s are capitalized. |
|17. |A |It is the contraction it is. |
|18. |A |The sentence shows plural possession. |
|19. |B |Ours does not require an apostrophe. |
|20. |A |I just need a comma because it is a complete sentence. |
|21. |B |The semicolon separates the cities after the commas. |
|22. |A |I don’t need a colon there; commas separate the names of artist. |
|23. |B |It is a complete sentence and you don’t need commas. |
|24. |B |The Comma separates the introductory phrase. |
|25. |A |A comma needs to be added before a conjunction. |